Transparency and sustainability of the EU risk assessment in the food chain

On 27 November, ENVI will vote on the above draft report that follows the European Citizens Initiative on glyphosate, and specifically the concerns voiced regarding the studies used in the evaluation of pesticides.

The proposal also follows the fitness check of the General Food Law Regulation, which identified the need to improve the transparency in the EU decision-making cycle, as well as the need to safeguard EFSA's ability to get access to a sufficiently high number of qualified and multidisciplinary scientific experts. A total of 539 amendments were tabled in ENVI addressing key issues including risk communication, the composition of EFSA's management board and scientific panels, and measures to improve transparency and respect confidentiality.